By trolley through eastern New England . m-bling place for the Indian powwows, and it was here that the Pilgrims feast was / ? celebrated for many ye-arsin memory of the landingof the Pilgrims at Plym-outh. The long peninsulais to-day used as a picnicground. Norfolk Downs isnext along the Academy, a pop-ular school, was foundedhere in 1823 by PresidentAdams, but it was notopen to pupils until Hancock was bornin the house which oncestood on the site of thisbuilding. A short runone to the square of thehistoric and interesting little city of Quincy. To Quincybelongs the honor
By trolley through eastern New England . m-bling place for the Indian powwows, and it was here that the Pilgrims feast was / ? celebrated for many ye-arsin memory of the landingof the Pilgrims at Plym-outh. The long peninsulais to-day used as a picnicground. Norfolk Downs isnext along the Academy, a pop-ular school, was foundedhere in 1823 by PresidentAdams, but it was notopen to pupils until Hancock was bornin the house which oncestood on the site of thisbuilding. A short runone to the square of thehistoric and interesting little city of Quincy. To Quincybelongs the honor of having furnished two Presidents of theUnited States. Across the square is the First UnitarianChurch, built in 1828 to replace the old church which stoodthere from 1732. In the crypt are the remains of PresidentJohn Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives. From the square cars may be taken for East Miltonand thence to Boston, to Nantasket Beach, Houghs Neckand other places. Continuing along the main line, the car turns the cor-. First Unitarian Church, Quincy brings EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 45 ner on which are the houses of John Adams and JohnQuincy Adams — these houses are owned and maintainedby the Daughters of the American Revolution, and manyinteresting relics are upon exhibition — and goes throughopen country, broken by occasional glimpses of the greatquarries of West Quincy on the hillside to the right, toBraintree. This town was settled in 1640 on a tract of landowned by John Hull, master of the mint. There is a storyconcerning him to the effect that he gave to Judge Sewallas his daughters dowry her weight in the pine tree shil-lings which were the money of the colonists. In Braintree is the famous Trilobite Quarry, wellknown to ge-ologists. Here rcars may betaken for Wey-mouth, for-merly calledOld Spain,and the firstsettlement inthe Common-wealth place wasfounded by
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